Contrechamp Award – Away is a 75-minute film about a child

Away is a 75-minute film about a child abandoned on a strange island. Away won first prize in a category created to provide a better platform for the most unique feature films. Following the unique style developed by Zilbalodis with a series of short films, Away is particularly notable for having made it only over a period of three and a half years. Shortly before the week, Zilbalodis admits that “these awards are very useful for independent animators like me” and hopes that this type of recognition “will make it much easier to make my next film”. He, reveals cartoon Brew, worked about seven days a week, perhaps eight to ten hours a day, on the project and even composed the music for the film itself. Away will now travel to festivals around the world and its creator will strive to “find good distributors” in the hope that he can “share” his first feature film trip with a wider audience. The success of the film at the festival site earned him the support of the streaming giants Netflix.